Taklamakan
(2001)The Land of No Return
(The first book in the Taklamakan Silk Road series)
A novel by John Schettler
ABOUT THE BOOK - Taklamakan, By John Schettler
This is Book I of the original novel, which concludes in Book II, Khan Tengri and includes a special 30,000 word 7 chapter addition in that volume.
It is the year 757, just after the An Lu Shan Rebellion shook the foundations of the mighty T'ang Empire in China. And it was one of those moments on the cusp of time, when Tando Ghazi Khan, a simple trader of teas and spice, leads a caravan to the edge of the great desert and becomes embroiled in the struggle that will decide the fate of an empire and shake all under heaven and earth...
Join Tando and his cameleers as they set out on a last, fateful journey from the markets of Dun Huang China to Kashgar on the western rim of the great Taklamakan Desert. Hoping only to garner enough profit from the sale of his fabled tea, Jade Ring Green, Tando and his men are soon captivated by the mystery of a strange and confounding map, and a quest that will lead them to the ruins of ancient, lost cities that once thrived in the heart of the Taklamakan. Along the way they must struggle for survival when they are caught up in the clash of Empires raging across the great stage of Western China and Central Asia. The armies of Tibet have come down from their high mountains to challenge the T'ang for dominance. Tando soon finds his simple caravan at the very heart of that struggle and is brought to a moment of fateful choice as he reaches the edge of the most forbidding desert on earth, a "Land of No Return."
Genre: Historical
This is Book I of the original novel, which concludes in Book II, Khan Tengri and includes a special 30,000 word 7 chapter addition in that volume.
It is the year 757, just after the An Lu Shan Rebellion shook the foundations of the mighty T'ang Empire in China. And it was one of those moments on the cusp of time, when Tando Ghazi Khan, a simple trader of teas and spice, leads a caravan to the edge of the great desert and becomes embroiled in the struggle that will decide the fate of an empire and shake all under heaven and earth...
Join Tando and his cameleers as they set out on a last, fateful journey from the markets of Dun Huang China to Kashgar on the western rim of the great Taklamakan Desert. Hoping only to garner enough profit from the sale of his fabled tea, Jade Ring Green, Tando and his men are soon captivated by the mystery of a strange and confounding map, and a quest that will lead them to the ruins of ancient, lost cities that once thrived in the heart of the Taklamakan. Along the way they must struggle for survival when they are caught up in the clash of Empires raging across the great stage of Western China and Central Asia. The armies of Tibet have come down from their high mountains to challenge the T'ang for dominance. Tando soon finds his simple caravan at the very heart of that struggle and is brought to a moment of fateful choice as he reaches the edge of the most forbidding desert on earth, a "Land of No Return."
Genre: Historical
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